WateringCan Spout Novelty Brand

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I bought a couple cheap watering cans from Fred Meyer and my local hardware store, mainly because there wasn't much variety available. Sadly, the stock nozzle mostly dribbled water very quickly and was mess, instead of showering. The holes were too big, and the holes on the bottom were too close together, leading to the streams coalescing into a bigger, more destructive, stream. Lastly, there's no gasket to prevent leakage. Since my goal is to fertilize delicate seedlings, I needed to come up with a new nozzle. This is my solution and it works pretty well. You can see the original nozzle in the last photo (old = white plastic, new = yellow) Also, the gasket will likely fit the old nozzle, but I haven't tried. I reduced the hole diameter to 1mm (first layer elephant's-foot will smoosh the holes closed, so you'll need a 1mm drill bit to drill the holes out. You could probably use a 1/16" drill it and be fine) this will have the added effect of smoothing the hole walls, which will lead to a more even stream. I made it so that when the cap is screwed on tightly, there are more holes on the top than on the bottom, leading to nice coverage and no stream coalescing. I printed the gasket in NinjaFlex TPU and it seals nicely. 0.25mm layer height for both the gasket and the nozzle. I printed the nozzle in PLA, but you could use PETG, ASA, or whatever rigid filament works for you. One note: if the top holes don't line up with the top of the cap when screwed on, you can go back in the "NewSpout" component timeline to the Move-operation and modify the rotation angle of the threads to position the top holes to the top of the can. OR, you could scale the gasket height by 80% and print with 0.20 layers to allow the nozzle to screw on more tightly. NOTE: The watering can comes with lots of excess seam plastic from the molding process. Use an X-Acto knife or razor blade to trim the excess plastic off - especially from the flat portion that will contact the gasket. It will help stop leaking. Please feel free to remix this - you could add or remove holes, and change the vector of the holes to widen or narrow the overall pattern. You could also widen the holes if you want a heavier stream. If you do remix, please post your source, and post the remix here so I can try out your remix.